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When she was young and in love, Thương and her boyfriend often went to the beach near their hometown. He would always point along the shore and say he would turn the area into a swampland for raising fish and shrimp.

Can Gio Tourist City (CTC), a Vingroup subsidiary, may be allowed to develop the Can Gio Golf Club project with the total capital of VND900 billion ($40.25 million) on the land area reclaimed from the sea in Ho Chi Minh City’s Can Gio district.

Hanoi will take the lead in improving the business climate and supporting enterprises since their formation, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Doan Toan said at a dialogue between the city’s authorities and entrepreneurs on November 28.

Ho Chi Minh City Real Estate Association (Horea) has proposed HCMC authorities to abolish the current unclear and unpredictable way of calculating land use fees and issue fixed land use tax in long term to make the process transparent, eliminate ask-give mechanism and sustain the long and sustainable revenue source for the state budget.

Construction investment has occurred strongly and spontaneously alongside Saigon River in the low-lying and soft ground southern part of HCMC, resulting in the loss of thousands of hectares of land areas playing the role as water reservoirs for HCMC.

A committee to disseminate education and law in Ho Chi Minh City along with the Department of Construction, the Department of Environment and Natural Resource, People’s Committee in Vinh Loc B Commune in HCMC’s Binh Chanh District yesterday held a meeting to popularize regulations of issuing land registration, construction permits and others.

The construction sector grew 8.8 per cent in gross domestic product (GDP) for the first half of this year, the highest growth since 2010, reported the Ministry of Construction during a conference in Ha Noi on Thursday on tasks in the second half of this year.

Home to a raft of new foreign direct investment projects in the year-to-date, with total committed capital increasing more than 10-fold over the same period last year, the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long has emerged as a rising star in the region.